svn commit: r349976 - head

Ian Lepore ian at freebsd.org
Thu Jul 25 15:32:26 UTC 2019


On Thu, 2019-07-25 at 10:27 -0300, Renato Botelho wrote:
> On 13/07/19 13:48, Ian Lepore wrote:
> > Author: ian
> > Date: Sat Jul 13 16:48:27 2019
> > New Revision: 349976
> > URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/349976
> > 
> > Log:
> >   Add an entry mentioning the permission/mode change to daily
> > accounting files.
> > 
> > Modified:
> >   head/UPDATING
> > 
> > Modified: head/UPDATING
> > ===================================================================
> > ===========
> > --- head/UPDATING	Sat Jul 13 16:32:19 2019	(r349975)
> > +++ head/UPDATING	Sat Jul 13 16:48:27 2019	(r349976)
> > @@ -31,6 +31,14 @@ NOTE TO PEOPLE WHO THINK THAT FreeBSD 13.x IS
> > SLOW:
> >  	disable the most expensive debugging functionality run
> >  	"ln -s 'abort:false,junk:false' /etc/malloc.conf".)
> >  
> > +20190713:
> > +    Default permissions on the /var/account/acct file (and copies
> > of it rotated 
> > +    by periodic daily scripts) are changed from 0644 to 0640
> > because the file 
> > +    contains sensitive information that should not be world-
> > readable.  If the 
> > +    /var/account directory must be created by rc.d/accounting, the
> > mode used is 
> > +    now 0750.  Admins who use the accounting feature are
> > encouraged to change 
> > +    the mode of an existing /var/account directory to 0750 or
> > 0700.  
> 
> Block is indented with 4 spaces instead of tabs
> 

Doh!  Must've still had my editor set for the $work coding standards. 
Fixed in r350324.  Thanks!

-- Ian



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